This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale. β¨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.118, Simon and Schuster
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- Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time. β¨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.97, Simon and Schuster
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- Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher β¦ βΆ
- For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm. β¨ Nikos Kazantzaki β¦ βΆ
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